posted 09.02.200521:08
This is obviously very challenging. It’s probably impossible to chose five only. Still, if you were to do this, to pick five classics which generations after us should not be without, which five?

posted 09.02.200523:43
Auto da Fé by Elias Canetti The Idiot by DostoyoevskyThe Outsider by Albert CamusThe Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailerumm..tricky to choose...probably The Heart of the Matter but possibly The Comedians by Graham Greene - a book that expresses <I>guilt</I>

<<insert proviso about my answers being different tomorrow here>>

<<insert apologies to Conrad, Dickens and Raymond Chandler, to the last of whom every gin gimlet I will ever drink is dedicated, here>>

posted 10.02.200509:28
I'm having Pride and Prejudice and The Great Gatsby at one and two, but from then on my list looks too much like PG's for me to escape the suspicion of being a copycat. Fucking three-novel overlap, there is.

(Though I might bounce A Confederacy of Dunces for Right Ho, Jeeves. The trouble is, I'm pretty sure that would have been bubbling under PG's list as well.)

posted 10.02.200511:39
Seeing as at least two people have included 100 years of Solitude I think the definition stretches to 'any load of old bollocks that takes your fancy'.
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